Forms - automatically highlighting VALUEs

Can this be done with plain ole' form syntax (such as DESELECT greying out a text box), or must I use some javascript?

TIA,


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- Mike Stembridge
http://www.georgiaoffroad.com

Sorry, I don't quite get what you'd like to do... can you please reformulate for us foreigners?

I will already have a default value in a <INPUT type=TEXT> tag. What I would like is for the default value to appear highlighted, so that as soon as the user presses a key the highlighting is gone and the selected key appears in it's place.

Sorry if this doesn't make it any clearer... It's a pretty simple concept but sometimes simple concepts are not easy to explain for whatever reason.

You could probably do something like:

document.form.fieldname.focus()
document.form.fieldname.select()

That would highlight the text that's currently in there, and being selected, it would clear the text once the user started typing..

You could also have the text in the field, and the clear the text when the user clicks in the field..

<form>
<input type="text" size=10 value="Enter your name" onfocus="clearField(this)">
</form>

and there'd be a javascript function like:

function clearField(someText)
{
if (someText.value == someText.defaultValue)
{
someText.value=""
}
}